You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

to help you read better.

I'm author and bookt of hour, Mallory O'Mara, and I'm Bria Grant, filmmaker and e-reader.

This episode, we're talking about navigating bookstores.

What do you do when you walk in?

People have questions.

We're going to let you know.

Interviewing, bookseller, Rachel Conrad from Print.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I'm going to talk about one of what I think is going to be one of my favorite books of

the year, which is a book called The Measure, uh-huh, by Nicky Ehrlich.

This book, wow, it really blew my mind.

It is one of those R-world, but different sort of books.

Basically, it's R-world, and then everyone gets a box delivered to their house one night.

And they don't know who delivered these boxes.

They don't know why.

Everyone in the world gets a box.

They open up the box, and there's a string inside.

And they're like, what does this mean?

They don't know.

Come to find out.

The strings are indicate how long you're going to live.

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